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Duke Athletics Earns 97 Percent Graduation Success Rate
10/3/2007 12:00:00 AM | Athletics
DURHAM, N.C. - Statistics for the Graduation Success Rate (GSR) released Wednesday by the NCAA indicated that ninety-seven percent of freshmen student-athletes receiving scholarship aid or recruited individuals participating in programs that do not offer athletic aid graduated from Duke within six years. The GSR is based on student-athletes who entered college as freshmen between 1997-2000.
"Graduating our student-athletes is of great importance at Duke University," said Director of Athletics Joe Alleva. "Victories and championships are obviously important, but earning a degree from Duke remains with young men and women for the rest of their lives."
A total of 20 Duke teams achieved a 100 percent GSR: men's cross country, men's indoor track and field, men's outdoor track and field, men's golf, men's lacrosse, men's soccer, men's swimming and diving, men's tennis, women's cross country, women's indoor track and field, women's outdoor track and field, rowing, women's fencing, field hockey, women's golf, women's lacrosse, women's soccer, women's swimming and diving, women's tennis and volleyball.
Five other sports -- baseball, men's fencing, football, wrestling and women's basketball -- achieved a GSR of 90 percent of better, pushing Duke's total to 25 of 26 sports at 90 percent or higher.
Duke's men's basketball GSR is 67 percent, with the 1997-00 cohorts including a sample size of 12 scholarship student-athletes. Of the group, eight graduated within six years, two departed the institution early to play in the NBA and did not complete degrees and two transferred to other schools.
"Graduating our student-athletes is of great importance at Duke University," said Director of Athletics Joe Alleva. "Victories and championships are obviously important, but earning a degree from Duke remains with young men and women for the rest of their lives."
A total of 20 Duke teams achieved a 100 percent GSR: men's cross country, men's indoor track and field, men's outdoor track and field, men's golf, men's lacrosse, men's soccer, men's swimming and diving, men's tennis, women's cross country, women's indoor track and field, women's outdoor track and field, rowing, women's fencing, field hockey, women's golf, women's lacrosse, women's soccer, women's swimming and diving, women's tennis and volleyball.
Five other sports -- baseball, men's fencing, football, wrestling and women's basketball -- achieved a GSR of 90 percent of better, pushing Duke's total to 25 of 26 sports at 90 percent or higher.
Duke's men's basketball GSR is 67 percent, with the 1997-00 cohorts including a sample size of 12 scholarship student-athletes. Of the group, eight graduated within six years, two departed the institution early to play in the NBA and did not complete degrees and two transferred to other schools.
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